Behind the Blacklist

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In the 40s and 50s, a former grocer named Laurence Johnson spearheaded an anticommunist blacklist against radio and TV broadcasters in New York. In A Shadow of Red, David Everitt explores Laurence Johnson's life, and his mysterious death in 1962.

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